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Recipe: My Granny's Summer berries Jam (child-friendly)

My Granny’s recipe for Summer berries Jam is one of my 10 year old son’s Diego favourite ones, so much so that ahead of Mother’s Day he made two jars. It’s a super simple recipe. He did not need any supervision while making it. Ingredients (for 2 medium sized jam jars) 500 g mixed summer fruits (you can buy them frozen as they are cheaper. Asda sells them as…
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Recipe: My Granny's Yogurt cake (child-friendly)

This recipe for a simple yogurt cake is very child-friendly and is one of my Grandmother from Italy with a few modern variations. My 10 year-old son Diego has made it for me this Mother’s Day. It is such a simple cake that children can make it without supervision (except for when the cake needs to be put in the oven). You can make it for Birthday parties with inside filling of either jam or…
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Recipe: Open-Top Filo Pie with Spicy Tomato Chutney

To celebrate British Pie Week, MAKE YOUR SWITCH have donated London Mums exclusive recipes. Open-Top Filo Pie with Spicy Tomato Chutney is our third recipe. Watch this space for more pie recipes this week. Enjoy!  Recipe Summary Switch Category: Steady Cooking For: 4 Courses: Dinner Spice rating: Mild Complexity: Easy Ready In: 40mins Ingredients List Open-Top Filo Pie with…
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Recipe: Big Puff Pie

To celebrate British Pie Week, MAKE YOUR SWITCH have donated London Mums exclusive recipes. Big Puff Pie is the second recipe. Watch this space for more pie recipes this week. Enjoy! A simple Big Puff Pie! Another pie that I tried from the veganuary site and I loved it. It was really easy to make and isn’t too pastry heavy, basically a puff pastry hat sits on top of a lovely veggie stew. I…
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Recipe: Mushroom & Potato Pie

To celebrate British Pie Week, MAKE YOUR SWITCH have donated London Mums exclusive recipes. Mushroom & Potato Pie is the first recipe. Watch this space for more pie recipes this week. Enjoy! Recipe Summary Cooking For: 4 Courses: Dinner Spice rating: Mild Complexity: Easy Ready In: 1h 10mins Ingredients List Strong Style Mushroom & Potato Pie By Faith Toogood 1kg potatoes…
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Valentines Healthy Recipes

Valentine meal do not need to be super fatty and calorie rich to be yummy. Here are London Mums favourite Valentines Healthy Recipes. Valentines Recipes – Blazingly Hot Tomato Soup (make 4 servings) Ingredients 1 tablespoon light olive oil 1 medium onion, peeled and finely chopped 1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed or finely sliced 1 teaspoon sea salt 1 x 400g tin chopped tomatoes or 8…
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Feeding the Family

Can your kids cook? A new report suggests they should have mastered twenty- five dishes by age eleven

Wouldn’t it be lovely if the kids could take care of meal times? London Mums would be very happy about it, wouldn’t we all… Well a new report suggests they should be able to do just that by age 11. Commissioned to launch the Samsung Family Hub Refrigerator, the research of 2,000 parents found that 25 years ago the average child could make six dishes by the age of 11 – however the…
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Christmas Recipe: 17th century gingerbread biscuit

If you are missing Bake Off try to make this Christmas recipe for a 17th century gingerbread biscuit kindly donated by The Museum of London and Albion which have joined forces to create this yummy cookie commemorating 350 years since the Great Fire of London. People often have the misconception that food from around this time was dull and uninteresting however this isn’t the case at all.
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Recipe: Raw Carrot Cake Cookies

This recipe for raw Carrot Cake Cookies has been exclusively created by Livia’s Kitchen to celebrate Zootropolis out now on Blu-ray & DVD and donated to London Mums. Cookie: 7 squidgy medjool dates 150g carrot (peeled and with the ends chopped off) 3 teaspoons cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon vanilla powder 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger 1 tablespoon coconut oil 4 tablespoons ground flax 150g…
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Summer recipe: Strawberry Tiramisu

I love using seasonal ingredients for my cooking and we have tried to make Strawberry Tiramisu inspired by Lubera Strawberries. If you get to make it, please send us your images and ideas to adapt the recipe to the little ones’ taste. Wimbledon season is over now and now that we have seen a glimpse of Summer we can cool down with something a little different. Strawberries and Cream is last…
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